University of Virginia
Coding for Designers, Managers, and Entrepreneurs Specialization
University of Virginia

Coding for Designers, Managers, and Entrepreneurs Specialization

Learn coding basics to create digital products.

Alex Cowan

Instructor: Alex Cowan

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4.2

(51 reviews)

Beginner level
No prior experience required
1 month
at 10 hours a week
Flexible schedule
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Get in-depth knowledge of a subject
4.2

(51 reviews)

Beginner level
No prior experience required
1 month
at 10 hours a week
Flexible schedule
Learn at your own pace

What you'll learn

  • How to take application designs and translate them into functioning web applications using HTML, CSS, and Javascript

  • How to evaluate alternative approaches to your coding implementations

  • How to work through coding issues with analytical debugging techniques

  • How to relate your experience to the challenges and decisions faced by individual developers and development teams

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Specialization - 3 course series

Coding for Designers, Managers, & Entrepreneurs I

Course 122 hours4.1 (54 ratings)

What you'll learn

  • How to transition ideas to designs, and how to translate those designs to code

  • How to build end user interfaces using HTML and CSS (with a transition to Javascript in course 2).

  • How to use analytical debugging to take the guess work and anxiety out of coding

  • How to use digital literacy to enhance your team's practice of agile

Skills you'll gain

Category: Rapid Prototyping
Category: HTML5
Category: User Story
Category: Cascading Style Sheets (CSS)
Category: User Experience Design (UXD)

Coding for Designers, Managers, & Entrepreneurs II

Course 214 hours4.4 (16 ratings)

What you'll learn

  • How to take application designs and translate them into digital prototypes using HTML, CSS, and Javascript

  • Analytically debug Javascript with the Chrome debugger

  • Explain what digital literacy means for today’s interdisciplinary collaborators

Skills you'll gain

Category: Rapid Prototyping
Category: Jquery
Category: User Interface Design (UI Design)
Category: JavaScript
Category: HTML5

What you'll learn

  • How to go from idea to design, and from design to code

  • How to integrate with web API's like Google Firebase to build a modern web application

  • How to take the anxiety and guesswork out of coding with analytical debugging

Skills you'll gain

Category: Rapid Prototyping
Category: HTML
Category: JavaScript
Category: Cascading Style Sheets (CSS)
Category: User Experience (UX)

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Alex Cowan
University of Virginia
25 Courses488,848 learners

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